This talk of rings reminds me - I never hear about the scourge of laundry doers worldwide from 40 years ago - ring around the collar.
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@jerry I think that, much like quicksand, it was very overhyped.
@Lightfighter great minds and all that.
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry but what about horse eating tar pits?!
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@jerry but what about horse eating tar pits?!
@manicPxiSIEMGrl those were certainly on my mind, but quicksand seemed much more common
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry We stopped wearing white, collared shirts... and the ones we do wear just get thrown away faster.
My family definitely has some old white collared shirts with discoloration that doesn't come out in the wash. I'm just too much of a dirtbag to throw them away or worry about it.
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry The amount of drugs NOT offered to me is bullshit.
That and I am way over concerned about being kidnapped.
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@jerry We stopped wearing white, collared shirts... and the ones we do wear just get thrown away faster.
My family definitely has some old white collared shirts with discoloration that doesn't come out in the wash. I'm just too much of a dirtbag to throw them away or worry about it.
@mathaetaes I had a feeling the answer was "we stopped caring"
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@jerry The amount of drugs NOT offered to me is bullshit.
That and I am way over concerned about being kidnapped.
@jackryder so very very true
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This talk of rings reminds me - I never hear about the scourge of laundry doers worldwide from 40 years ago - ring around the collar. Whatever happened to that?
@jerry It's real. I had to get rid of a few of my button-downs because the insides of the collars were looking pretty nasty and even bleach wasn't getting them clean.
Organic bodies are kinda nasty sometimes.
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@trollball.bsky.social this is probably the best explanation
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@jerry The amount of drugs NOT offered to me is bullshit.
That and I am way over concerned about being kidnapped.
@jackryder @jerry True.
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry quicksand and lasers we going to be my downfall for sure. They've never surfaced as a problem. I want a refund.
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@mathaetaes I had a feeling the answer was "we stopped caring"
@jerry It's been replaced by 'chemical free' and 'natural' and whatnot.
Sadly, my partner was raised with no mechanism for skepticism, and buys into it completely.
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry There was the quicksand and also a lot of misplaced concern about playing with abandoned refrigerators
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@jerry There was the quicksand and also a lot of misplaced concern about playing with abandoned refrigerators
@zcutlip I had completely forgot about that. but you are right
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry personally I thought I would have encountered more falling anvils and exploding cigars. I can, in fact, count on one hand the number of falling pianos I've come across (0).
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@jerry There was the quicksand and also a lot of misplaced concern about playing with abandoned refrigerators
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I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.
@jerry I also thought that venemous snake wounds in which I would have to lacerate the injured and suck out venom in order to save them would be at least a weekly occurrence in my adult life.
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@jerry I think that, much like quicksand, it was very overhyped.
@Lightfighter @jerry I legit once fell into a mud hole that was very much like quick sand while i was out hiking with a friend. Only luck got my hand to something solid before i was fully submerged.
I dont think it'd have been as hard to escape as quick sand supposedly is.
All i got.
Not once have i witnessed ring around the collar. More elusive than quick sand (or.. mud) in my experience.
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@jerry I also thought that venemous snake wounds in which I would have to lacerate the injured and suck out venom in order to save them would be at least a weekly occurrence in my adult life.
@jerry Perhaps there is a causal effect at play. The lack of venomous snake wounds accounts for collar ring not being a problem anymore.
Like, running to save people from dying of poison, then holding them down to operate, is a lot of work and would certainly make a normal businessperson perspire, thereby staining the collar of their shirt. Maybe this problem was a lot more common in the 60s and 70s, and advancements in venomous snake management are having the unintended effect of making our shirts cleaner.
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@Lightfighter @jerry I legit once fell into a mud hole that was very much like quick sand while i was out hiking with a friend. Only luck got my hand to something solid before i was fully submerged.
I dont think it'd have been as hard to escape as quick sand supposedly is.
All i got.
Not once have i witnessed ring around the collar. More elusive than quick sand (or.. mud) in my experience.
@Lightfighter @jerry it was like you see in cartoons by the way. One moment im walking on solid ground, the next im falling through what looked like a solid patch of trail. Crazy.
